Lounge vs Restroom - What's the difference?
lounge | restroom |
A waiting room in an office, airport etc.
A domestic living room.
* 1954 , Alexander Alderson, The Subtle Minotaur , chapter 18:
An establishment, similar to a bar, that serves alcohol and often plays background music or shows television.
A large comfortable seat for two or three people or more, a sofa or couch; also called lounge chair .
The act of one who lounges; idle reclining.
* 1849 , The Knickerbocker (volume 33, page 198)
To relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
* J. Hannay
As nouns the difference between lounge and restroom
is that lounge is a waiting room in an office, airport etc while restroom is a public room containing a toilet.As a verb lounge
is to relax; to spend time lazily; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.lounge
English
Noun
(en noun)- The lounge was furnished in old English oak and big Knole settees. There were rugs from Tabriz and Kerman on the highly polished floor. A table lamp was fashioned from a silver Egyptian hookah.
- That is, he devoted his waking hours to lounges among the habitués of Chestnut-street, and lollings in an arm-chair of 'Squire Coke in Walnut-street.
Synonyms
* (living room) loungeroom (Australia ) * (pub) See alsoVerb
(loung)- We lounge over the sciences, dawdle through literature, yawn over politics.